Friday, May 9, 2014

Eat Your Words


 Hi everyone

WCBA members have been among the successful prize-winners in past Eat Your Words competitions. The 2014 competition is now open to entries. (Deadline: 23 May). 

All the details you need are below. Please feel free to forward this to friends or around your networks.

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Eat Your Words 2014

Eat Your Words is Whitireia’s biennial café-inspired poetry competition, which has been running since 2010.

This year we are opening the competition to flash fiction as well.

The theme for entries is ‘Words to go with your coffee’.

Entries must be 150 words or under. There is no entry fee.

Prizes and publication
30-40 winning entries will be chosen, and these will receive café-themed prizes and be published in the 2014 Eat Your Words book.

Judge
Highly respected Wellington poet James Brown will judge the main prizes.

Rules
* All entries – whether poetry or flash fiction must be 150 words or under.
* Entries must not have been published before
* Entrants must be from the greater Wellington region.
* Max – three entries per person

There is no official entry form.

Email your entry to:
 by 23 May.

(No entries by post.)

Prize sponsors include:

Emma Makes (handcrafted literary stationery and more)

Prodigal Daughter (Artisan Italian food)

Poesy (artisan pizza bases with poetry cards)

Deadline: 23 May